ABOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aboard mean? 

• ABOARD (adverb)
  The adverb ABOARD has 4 senses:

1. on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle

2. on first or second or third base

3. side by side

4. part of a group

  Familiarity information: ABOARD used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABOARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle

Synonyms:

aboard; on board

Sense 2

Meaning:

On first or second or third base

Context example:

Their second homer with Bob Allison aboard

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Side by side

Synonyms:

aboard; alongside

Context example:

anchored close aboard another ship

Sense 4

Meaning:

Part of a group

Context example:

Bill's been aboard for three years now

 Context examples 

Well then, I mean this squire and doctor shall find the stuff, and help us to get it aboard, by the powers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

With little room to spare aboard a spacecraft, any human missions to Mars will have to harvest what's already available for drinking water and making rocket fuel.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

No thank you, says he; I should much prefer not to go aboard.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its data, coupled with images from a camera aboard the orbiter called the Mars Context Imager (MARCI), enabled scientists to detect numerous swelling dust towers.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

Once the ark is built, Uta–napishti and his family clamber aboard and survive with a menagerie of animals.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

A set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

M3, aboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, launched in 2008 by the Indian Space Research Organization, was uniquely equipped to confirm the presence of solid ice on the Moon.

(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)

The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter.

(Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View, NASA)

Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

An accident taking place aboard, or involving, any type of aircraft.

(Aircraft Accident, NCI Thesaurus)